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Worth mentioning that a good thermal grease can make a 5+ degree difference. Proof: skinneelabs.com/2011-tim-results/

Wow, been a few years since I posted here.

As for slimming down the MOBO, I can't give any advice.

As for if it's a "portable" or not, I'd say if it has a built-in controller(s), screen, and game-system in an easy-to-carry case it's portable. I know there have been a few "laptop" builds that lack ...

Now that would be awsome! But probably close to imposible.

Oh, thats always fun. I got a few old caps off a broken electronic device I found and threw them in the fire last time I went camping. Lots of fun!!!!!

I actually prefer
3. Altium Circuit Maker
5. Mouser (I think it is easier to find and purchase stuff)

What is eagle?

Okay then, I will see what I can do (don't get your hopes up). All you have to do is get some good CAD software for board design and then have a board made from a place like this. Then the soldering is no problem, I actually like soldering fine pitched SMD devices.

You can put the pins back in the cart slot. Your N64 is not screwed up (yet).

How many gates does the FPGA have to have? I might be able to help a little with it.

You could make a pretty good laptop but it would take some work. You could even put Linux on it, double the RAM and make it a little faster by doing a few other mods; then you could run emulators (all the way to N64).

I am good with a soldering iron but I can't program very good. I am better with the physical design of stuff then the programming part. If you send me some designs I might be able to look at it and see what I can find out. i don't have a working osilioscope anymore though so i don't know how much I ...

Thanks for the input on my ideas. Anyone else have any ideas about slimming down the disc drive? I don't see how you could since the thickest part is the laser and you can't just cut it up.

I would say it is the ribbon cable but if it is not, yes there are fuses in the fat PS2 DVD drive.

Sorry, but, that is 100% fake. There is nothing at all that has been hacked other than half the laptop get removed. Look at it, those are laptop parts, not x-box parts. Anyone who knows anything about computers could tell you that. That was defiantly a laptop HDD (not the stick X-Box one),Optical ...

CRT (Cathode Ray Tube) monitors are not very popular anymore. You should probably get a new screen. LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) screens are really popular now. You should really look into getting rechargeable batteries. There is not much we here at Benheck can do for you. Learn electronics and it ...

Thank you. Actually, I am planning on naming my portable the "µCube". I like it's name. Any opinions, maybe rate the name on a scale of 1-10?